Yeah. Been a roller coaster in the fake Internet points like no other post I've ever made. I dunno, one day (years ago, now?) I was yet again reading a post li

Yeah. Been a roller coaster in the fake Internet points like no other post I've ever made. I dunno, one day (years ago, now?) I was yet again reading a post like "well it's a shame these workers suffer horribly and maybe we can do some stuff to help, but the work has to be done" and it occurred to me that I was reading someone defending billions-of-dollars corporations with exactly the same reasoning that a kid uses when they say another kid "made them" punch them, and then we were all hand-wringing over which color of medical tape to put on the victim's nose (I mean, clearly the kid had to get punched, everyone agrees on that and you must be crazy if you don't, but we should try to help!) instead of stepping back and going "what if the problem is that there's punching happening in the first place?" The whole framing of the problem, as it's most commonly expressed, is myopic and deflects from whole categories of solutions (that are very inconvenient to a few Internet giants that dominate the attention economy).